Heather Hurley's book 'The Pubs of the Royal Forest of Dean' says the Folly was one of at least three pubs in Whitecliff - 'a long straggling hamlet on the Newland road' named after the face of the nearby quarry. The Folly is now apparently a heap of stones at the side of Rock Lane. First mentioned as a beer house in 1757, and John Taylor seems to have been last one named as selling beer and a shopkeeper, before it closed some time after 1879.

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